Macoupin County IL Archives Biographies.....Blackburn, Gideon 1772 - 1838
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BLACKBURN, Gideon, educator, was born in Angusta county, Va., Aug. 27, 1772. 
He was licensed to preach by the Abingdon presbytery in 1792; established a 
church at Marysville, Va., and others near by, and was sent as missionary to 
the Cherokee Indians in 1803. He became principal of Harpeth academy, East 
Tennessee, in 1811; continued to preach, and was pastor at Louisville, Ky., 
1823-27. He was president of Centre college, Louisville, Ky., 1827-30, and 
then removed to Versailles, where he preached and acted as agent of the 
Kentucky state temperance society. In 1833 he went to Illinois and in 1835 
began to raise money for Illinois college, a work which resulted in the 
theological school at Carlinville, Ill. In 1805 the College of New Jersey 
conferred on him the degree of D.D., and Dickinson college gave him those of 
A.M. and S.T.D. He died in Carlinville, Ill., Aug. 23, 1838.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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